2. The first full-length monograph assessing the relations between Nietzsche and Montaigne, the author whom Nietzche in "Schopenhauer as Educator" judged as "this freest and mightiest of spirits." The Essais are crucially important for Nietzsche, in his early, middle-period, and late writings. Montaigne is one of the few figures whom Nietzsche consents to take as a "judge." Yet very little has been written about the connections between Montaigne and Nietzsche. My book shall close the gap. Drafts of six of its projected seven chapters are complete. The chapters are as follows: